Question for those with young teenage/pre teen boys...

[annie0000]

...are Helly Hansen jackets in or out at the moment?

[daffy654]

Me too! I only shop online nowadays and that means I don't have to tolerate some slim young assistant looking down their nose at me when it becomes obvious that I am not up on the latest trends. :)

[lankeela]

Like when I went to buy a pair of 'pop socks' and got told by a snotty kid 'we call them knee highs these days'!

[Caran]

I bought superdry stuff for my two teenage grandchildren for Christmas. We went to a shopping village discount place near Swindon where everything was half retail price. Also if you google Superdry there is a voucher available for 15% off just for this month.

[EvianBaby]

Pop socks and knee highs are different things, surely?

My pop socks dont reach my knees.

[annie0000]

Thanks for all your help guys - It was a £50 Berghaus one he had stolen - he is still at primary school (age 11) but will go to high school after the summer and I am sure they have rules on jackets so that's two reasons why I don't want to spend a lot. I need an age 14 jacket as he is tall. It's actually a hard size to buy for, too big for Kids sizes and too small for adults. There aren't many jackets around at that size - it took me ages to get the one that he had.

He has his swimming lessons at the High School and that's where his jacket went awol. I like the styling of Superdry, but they are not really proper outdoor jackets (he does various outdoor activities so it needs to be properly waterproof) and I'm not a big fan of Nike/Adidas etc but there may be something like that that'll fit the bill - I'll have a look through the links.

Re M&Mdirect, that's what was throwing me too as they still have loads of Helly Hansen, as does Next :/ and I was pretty sure that they weren't the "in" thing anymore.

I'd rather have something that was neither in or out if possible. He had a North Face one before the Berghaus and a Sprayway before that and didn't get any bother.

Hmmmmmm.

[jkelly24]

My teenage sons would never buy anything from sports direct or they'd get bullied. the 'in' place for teenage boys is JD sports and altough you may not like Nike or Adidas I'm afraid thats what all the teenagers wear. Helly Hansen been 'out' for a while now which is a shame as my son had one a couple of years ago and it was worth every penny. Good luck it's a minefield out there!

[annie0000]

Well, trawled the physical shops today and nothing suitable so back to internet now......asked the boy if he had any preferences and he said "black" and that was it!!

[erin-x]

Barbour jackets are really popular right now.... Expensive if you want the real thing though!

[tinkerbell23]

Helly hansen was in when i was at high school and im pushing 25 so id say no! Superdry and gio goi seem to be in. Plus more- cant remember as its my cousins. X